{"id":1028,"date":"2012-07-02T19:24:51","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T16:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/castle.nicuilie.eu\/?p=1028"},"modified":"2014-05-31T20:13:24","modified_gmt":"2014-05-31T20:13:24","slug":"dover-castle-in-kent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wansait.com\/tranzit\/en\/dover-castle-in-kent\/07\/","title":{"rendered":"Dover Castle in Kent"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dover Castle was built on the White Cliffs in 12th century; a 75 metre deep well; a view across the Channel.<\/p>\n

The Anglo-Saxon church beside it was once probably part of a Saxon fortified settlement: very soon after his victory at Hastings in 1066, this was converted by William the Conqueror into a Norman earthwork and timber-stockaded castle.<\/p>\n

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From then on Dover Castle was garrisoned uninterruptedly until 1958, a continuous nine-century span equalled only by the Tower of London and Windsor Castle. The stronghold hosted royal visits by Henry VIII, Elizabeth I and Charles I\u2019s Queen Henrietta Maria: and from 1740 until 1945, its defences were successively updated in response to every European war involving Britain.<\/p>\n

Dover Castle is above all a great medieval fortress, created by King Henry II and his Plantagenet successors. At its heart stands the mighty keep or Great Tower, 83 feet (25.3m) high and just under 100 feet (30m) square, with walls up to 21 feet (6.5m) thick. The grandest and among the last of the keeps raised by the kings of England during the 11th and 12th centuries, it was designed by Henry II\u2019s architect \u2018Maurice the Engineer\u2019 and built between 1180 and 1185. A symbol of kingly power and authority guarding the gateway to the realm, it was also a palace designed for royal ceremony, and to house Henry\u2019s travelling court. Within this magnificent showpiece, Henry could welcome and impress distinguished visitors to England\u2013 particularly noble pilgrims travelling to the new shrine in Canterbury Cathedral of St.Thomas Becket, slaughtered before the altar by Henry\u2019s household knights only a dozen or so years before the Great Tower was begun.<\/p>\n

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The Tower Now<\/strong><\/p>\n

As one of English Heritage\u2019s most ambitious projects for many years, the entire interior of Henry\u2019s Great Tower palace has now been breathtakingly recreated. Historians, designers, artists and craftspeople have combined to present it as it might have appeared when newly completed, and ready to receive an important visitor, Count Philip of Flanders, in 1184.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dover Castle was built on the White Cliffs in 12th century; a 75 metre deep well; a view across the Channel. The Anglo-Saxon church beside it was once probably part of a Saxon fortified settlement: very soon after his victory at Hastings in 1066, this was converted by William the Conqueror into a Norman earthwork… Read More »Dover Castle in Kent<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[82,99,388,705,814,839,998,1205,1212,1365,1462,1670,1798,1841,1892,1951,2038,2081,2218,2236,2244],"class_list":["post-1028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-united-kingdom","tag-ambitious-projects","tag-anglo-saxon","tag-canterbury-cathedral","tag-dover-castle","tag-english-heritage","tag-european-war","tag-great-tower","tag-king-henry-ii","tag-kings-of-england","tag-medieval-fortress","tag-noble-pilgrims","tag-queen-henrietta-maria","tag-royal-ceremony","tag-saxon-church","tag-showpiece","tag-st-thomas-becket","tag-the-channel","tag-tower-palace","tag-white-cliffs","tag-william-the-conqueror","tag-windsor-castle"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4IfKt-gA","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":824,"url":"https:\/\/wansait.com\/tranzit\/en\/caerphilly-castle-walles\/10\/","url_meta":{"origin":1028,"position":0},"title":"Caerphilly Castle (Walles)","author":"hrnicu","date":"October 21, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"South Wales, the largest castle in Britain after Windsor, was built in 1268-1271 by the Anglo-Norman lord, Gilbert de Clare. 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